On Wednesday 26 January 2011 18:28:13 Timothy Pearson wrote:
If you (or another RedHat/OpenSUSE person) want to do that please feel free to do so. Personally I use Ubuntu and Debian and am therefore completely unfamiliar with the RedHat/Fedora/OpenSUSE way of doing things. The only thing I would ask is that the packager please send me a .tar.gz file that compiles against Trinity 3.5.12 so that I may add the new application to SVN.
So having tgz and the patches is enough to have it ported to Trinity? In that case the most of the applications we discussed recently can be ported. They build well for the upcoming OpenSUSE 11.4 and if you say Trinity is source-compatible with KDE 3.5.10, nearly all of them are also compatible with Trinity.
By the way, what do you do with packages which require external dependencies (i.e. those which are part of the distro itself and not included in Trinity)? Can such packages be included in Trinity?
External dependencies (e.g. non-Trinity libraries) stay at the distribution level.
Yes, you are correct; if it builds against 3.5.12 I will put it into SVN. However, you will likely find that there are minor tweaks that must be done to the source code due to slight API changes in the Trinity core. No, I don't have a list handy at the moment. ;-)
Tim